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I keep seeing this grouping. Who are the people entrenched?

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From JA: McCraw and possibly also Murdock.

Literally all of the BoR going back to the 1950s. Reagan Ramsower is a bagman who is used as a proxy to refer to this group.

Here's the huge issue: Baylor's draconian policy against drug and alcohol use made the reporting of sexual assaults which occurred while the victim was under the influence of either into a self-injurious behavior. That is functionally the same as actively discouraging the reporting of sexual assault. This situation resulted from policies which were adopted by the BoR, reviewed and renewed many times over the years, and enforced by JA. The Baylor football players who got away with rape didn't get away with it because they were football players- they got away with it because they were Baylor students.

For the university, the massive hit of firing a football coach was had done great things for the univeristy was the price paid for containing the scandal. By selectively reinforcing the common narrative of "a successful football program that thought that it was above the law", the BoR successfully shielded the university from liability from all of the other women who were prevented from coming forward by university policies that Art Briles had no hand in and which predated him by more than a century.

The abject failure of the BoR is most notable in their refusal to implement any of the the PH recommendations which pertained to them save for the keeping of minutes at their meetings. They skirted this rule by convening executive sessions which they choose not to subject to those record keeping requirements.

Art Briles wasn't an angel; Art Briles behaved in a manner which is common practice for major programs but was foolish enough to do so at a university that prioritized busting rape victims for drinking over the prosecution of rapists. I would be far less angry about his firing had the slew of other equally culpable administrators and regents followed him out the door. There was no accountability.